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Chapter 3: Secular Music
GET BOOKS TODAYGet in your presentation groups and discuss the
following topic. Be prepared to present your group’s thoughts/ideas to the class at 10:35:
Why was Leonardo da Vinci considered the epitome of the Renaissance Man? Would it be possible for
someone today to match his achievements? Explain.
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VOCAL MUSIC
• Secular vocal music increasingly popular– Set to poems in Italian, French, Spanish, German,
Dutch, English– Printed music made performing it a leisure activity– Every educated person expected to play an
instrument and read notation– Written for groups of solo voices or solo voice with
accompaniment of instruments
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VOCAL MUSIC
• Secular vocal music more popular– Text painting common– Composers imitated natural sounds like bird
calls, street cries.
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Vocal Music cont…
• Renaissance Madrigal– For several voices set to a short poem– Usually about love– Like a motet, it combines homophonic and
polyphonic textures– Word painting, unusual harmonies– Originated in Italy around 1520– Published by the thousands in 16th. c. Italy
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Vocal Music cont…
– Sung by cultivated aristocrats– 1588: after defeat of the Spanish Armada, a
volume of translated Italian madrigals was published in London.
• Triggered spurt of madrigal writing by English comp.
• Same time as Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare• Golden age of both English music AND literature,
but originated in Italy
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LISTENING TO MADRIGAL
– As Vesta Was Descending (1601)Thomas Weelkes – one of the first English madrigalists
– See books pg. 112
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Vocal Music cont…
• Renaissance Ballett (Fa-La)– Simpler than madrigal, dance-like– For several solo voices– Homophonic (a contrast to most Ren.
music), melody in highest voice– Same music repeated for each verse/stanza,
syllables “fa-la” used as refrain– Also originated in Italy, cultivated in England
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LISTENING TO BALLETT
– Now Is the Month of Maying (1595)Thomas Morley
– See books pg. 113
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INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
• Early 1500’s: inst. music was largely adapted from vocal music.
• Harpsichord, organ, luteLute – plucked stringinstrument with body shaped like half a pear
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• Late 1500’s (16th c.): more music written specifically for inst.
• Mostly intended for dancing (common pass time)– Everyone expected to know how, taught by
professional dance masters– Popular dances:
• pavane or passamezzo (duple meter)• Galliard (triple meter)
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Instrumental Music, cont…
• musicians distinguished between loud, outdoor instruments like trumpet, and shawm (ancestor of oboe), and soft, indoor inst. like lute and recorder.
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• Other inst. of the Renaissance– Cornett – wooden,
cup-shaped mouthpiece
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– Sackbut – early trombone
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– Viols – pretty obvious– Regals (small organ with reed pipes)
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• Passamezzo and Galliard from Terpsichore– Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)– From collection of over 300 dances
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– Passamezzo (or pavane) – stately dance in duple meter
• This recording includes bowed strings, plucked strings, woodwinds, brasses, keyboard ints., timpani.
• 3 sections (abc), each immediately repeated louder, with more instruments (a a’ b b’ c c’)
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– Galliard – carefree dance in triple meter• Same melody as our passamezzo, more upbeat• Smaller ensemble: bowed strings, plucked strings,
woodwinds, harpsichord• 3 short sections, each ending with a cadence and
brief pause, then repeated more fully (just like pavane)
– But then, each section is repeated in succession at the end.
– a a’ b b’ c c’ a’ b’ c’
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• Renaissance Pavane• <iframe width="420" height="345"
src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/hVBlFUb0g60" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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VOCABULARY REVIEW• Renaissance• Individualism• “Universal man”• Humanism• Realism• Linear Perspective• Text Painting/Word Painting• Imitation• Consonance/Dissonance• A cappella• Motet• Mass
– Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
• Josquin Desprez• Imitation• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Protestant Reformation• Counter-Reformation• Council of Trent• Madrigal• Thomas Weelkes• Ballett• Thomas Morley• Pavane/Passamezzo• Galliard• Lute• Cornett• Sackbut• Shawm• Recorder• Regal• Michael Praetorius
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UNIT III PRESENTATIONS
Technology: Movable Type Printing Press, Gutenberg Bible
KalynJulianBlakeJacob
Religion: Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
DominiquePhilAlecBilal
Exploration: Columbus, da Gama, MagellanKierynClaireChris
Taimoor
Art: da Vinci, Michelangelo, RaphaelEmmaAaronSamiRyan
Literature: William ShakespeareAnna
AndrewNathan
Nick